Paul Martin > Quotes

“If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too”
― Paul Martin

“By the fifteenth century, Turkish law enabled a woman to divorce her husband if he failed to provide her with coffee.”
― Paul Martin, Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure

“If we do not step forward, then we will step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.”
― Paul Martin

“The half-life of caffeine -- that is, the time taken for the concentration in your bloodstream to drop by 50 per cent -- is between three and seven hours, with an average of about four hours. Therefore, if you drink several cups of strong coffee during your harassed working day, your blood will still contain substantial amounts of caffeine when you go to bed several hours later.”
― Paul Martin

“But hold fast. Before you become too flushed at the prospect of starring nightly in your own private pornographic films, there are limitations.”
― Paul Martin, Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams

“It's pretty simple. When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.”
― Paul Martin

“Millions of lives were eventually transformed because of what happened during those three days. Countless”
― Paul Martin, Lions Clubs in the 21st Century

“Psychological research and social surveys consistently find that people around the world continue to derive most of their pleasure from having sex, eating, drinking, relaxing and socialising with family and friends. In private, many of them also seek chemical pleasure from illicit drugs, which is why drug trafficking is estimated to account for around 8 per cent of all international trade.”
― Paul Martin, Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure